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Example sentences for: mistake

How can you use “mistake” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

The blind worship of the fabulous Fed chairman, who was just nominated for another term, means that: 1) if he does make a mistake it will be terribly magnified; and 2) investors are boosting stock prices to absurd levels because they are relying on Greenspan to tell them when they've gone too far.
Lewinsky calls the affair a "mistake" but frames the mistake in terms of technical error and emotional imbalance rather than moral failure.
Thank you ever so much for having communicated a reader's objection to my transliteration of tadachi with two is . It was indeed a mistake.
The head of analysis at the CTC until 1999 discounted the alarms about a catastrophic threat as relating only to the danger of chemical, biological, or nuclear attack-and he downplayed even that, writing several months before 9/11:"It would be a mistake to redefine counterterrorism as a task of dealing with 'catastrophic,''grand,' or 'super' terrorism, when in fact these labels do not represent most of the terrorism that the United States is likely to face or most of the costs that terrorism imposes on U.S. interests."
This doesn't sound like something he'd make a mistake about, and he wouldn't print an untruth. ...